Jitish Kallat

'Elicitation # 1 (Terranum Nuncius)' is a photographic diptych of images drawn from The Golden Record archive dispatched by NASA on the Voyager space missions in 1977. Here Kallat draws reference from his own recent installation 'Covering Letter (Terranum Nuncius)' which encapsulates a summary of life on earth as addressed to an extra-terrestrial. A picture of children examining an oversized globe is paired with another image that demonstrates three modes of tasting and ingesting. For Kallat, these images of our existence indirectly allude to our relationship with the planet, forged by consistently consuming and surveying it.